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* In 1964, when Murray Gell-Mann announced his theory of quarks, a journalist reportedly asked him whether science was ever gonna find the "smallest", truly elementary pieces of matter, to which he famously replied "Who knows?" The urban legend among scientists has it that the journalist misinterpreted the statement, and since a Chinese researcher by the name Hu was present at the announcement, he wrote down that "Prof. Hu knows".
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100619073631/http://www.qdb.us/4780 This] qdb quote features some confusion over the World Health Organization.
** "WHO" is the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806230305/http://bash.org/?4780 World Health Organization].
** This site and Bash.org both also house a repository of such confusion over Windows Millennium Edition, which sucked.
{{quote|'''A truly astounding number of people:''' [Subject] sucks worse than ME!}}
** Bash.org also has this [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530092032/http://www.bash.org/?114352 shining example] of this trope.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113230331/http://qdb.us/146569 This] quote, also on qdb.us: "watt" <-> what.
* We also have Nowhere, Alaska. For when you really want to get to the middle of Nowhere.
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